Archive for October, 2007

Biggerer and Biggerer

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

The demo and presentation roster for DemoCamp15 has been updated; according to David Crow (chief instigator), 300 people have registered to attend.  W00t!  (And: please God, let the wireless and A/V work... ;-)) We'll be heading off to the Duke of York afterward --- hope to see you all then and ...

Ben’s Panel

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Ex-49er Ben Vinegar's panel proposal for "Web Service APIs Your Mom Will Love" was one of the first 30 accepted for SXSW Interactive 2008.  I won't be able to attend (yet another mid-March'08 event), but I look forward to hearing from those of you who do.

Go 77 Go!

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

The University of Toronto's BlueSky solar car racing team is competing in this year's World Solar Challenge, which is now under way in Australia. They're car #77 --- go team!

But Not For Me

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I used to play a little jazz, and was fond of a Gershwin tune called "But Not For Me": They're writing songs of love, but not for me, A lucky star's above, but not for me The lyrics came to mind when I saw this announcement from IBM about a new ...

Unfortunate Timing

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I've just realized that while PyCon'08 is in Chicago (good), it's scheduled directly opposite SIGCSE'08 in Portland (bad).  Either would be a lot more fun that the last two workshops I've been to... *sigh*

Requirements Conference Prize

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Jorge Aranda's paper "Requirements in the wild: How small companies do it" has won an award for most innovative paper at the 2007 Requirements Engineering conference.  Congrats to Jorge, and thanks to all the local companies that agreed to share their secrets with him.

A List Apart’s Web Design Survey

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Via Andrew Louis, a pointer to A List Apart's 2007 web design survey. Raw data is available as well for people who'd like to crunch it in different ways.

Apologies for the Viagra Ads

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

My apologies to those of you who stumbled over ads for Viagra and web sites depicting...um, stuff.  I haven't been keeping up with WordPress security patches as religiously as I should.  I've cleaned out as much as I could find; if you see any suspicious links at the bottom of ...

More Fun Than Code

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007



DemoCamp 15 Lineup

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

We're starting to finalize a schedule for DemoCamp 15, and it's lookin' pretty fine. If you haven't already registered to attend, please do so: there are only a few places left. Here's what we have so far; stay tuned for breaking news. Demos Pete Forde, Unspace Interactive: Jester is a JavaScript ...